Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seaport is typical. Each has its own strange mixture of races and cultures, each possesses its own peaceful and violent story. The story of New Orleans began when LaSalle, in 1682, erected a cross on the Mississippi Delta. A century later, the site had become a New World port...
...AMAG report showed that five airfields were being "winterized," work had started on repairs to three stretches of highway, repairs had begun on port installations in Piraeus and Salonika, and work would soon begin on clearing the Corinth Canal (blocked by German demolitions since...
...week it looked as if New York-bound air travelers might get some relief from long waits, and the threat of stackup collisions which airmen have long feared. New York City and the state of New Jersey got together on the most ambitious airport development ever attempted -a tri-port system that might well set the pattern for safer air operations in all crowded centers. The new airport plan would be run by the Port of New York Authority, a unique bi-state agency which has proved itself one of the most efficient governmental bodies...
...With the three ports, the Authority plans to establish a new air pattern for New York's Metropolitan area. The Authority firmly believes that the solution to air congestion is not merely bigger airports but a number of airports which split up the traffic. As a start, the low-traffic Newark port will handle 52 of the flights now using LaGuardia every day. Eventually, the Authority hopes that Newark will handle all the Metropolitan area's long-haul traffic; Idlewild, which will be opened by July, will handle transatlantic flights, and LaGuardia will be left only domestic, short...
...George Washington, Bayonne, Goethals Bridges, the Outerbridge Crossing, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels. The Authority also runs Brooklyn's Gowanus Grain Terminal, built the 14-story Port Authority Building that houses the Union Inland Railroad Freight Station for less-than-carload lots...